If your plants smell gorgeous please come and tell me how!

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I have lavender, Thyme and a couple of other plants in my garden which are nice smelling ones. Last year I had Jasmine which smelt nice sometimes (usually when it was watered I think) but my problem is that unless I go and rub them I just can't smell them, even when I do that it lasts 2 minutes or so then nothing. So why is it that when I walk past certain gardens I can smell them and they're lovely? There are 2 front gardens I regularly walk past, one smells of Lavender from about 3 doors down each way and one smells like Jasmine I think. I've looked in the Lavender garden and it looks like standard English Lavender which I have (also the purple flowery ones which I think are French Lavender). I can smell Thyme on a warm day outside a house we pass also so any ideas why mine doesn't smell at all?

My best - Munstead Wood Rose and Philadelphus.
Am out in the rain now sniffing....
Philadelphus is really easy to grow and the smell is stunning. It's pretty too!

I can never smell my lavendar either - I have to go and rub it and I have a few types planted. Jasmine too. It's annoying when smelly things don't smell!

In my garden nemesia smells the strongest. You can get many different varieties and wisely cannula is my favourite.

Maybe get a rose too, many actually say what strength the fragrant is.

Maybe my plant varieties need spicing up then! Thanks.

It’s often if they are in full sun, the heat evaporated the oils.

That's interesting, do you mean the heat evaporates the oils and they smell nice as it's doing so or that the evaporation means it's all gone so none left to smell nice?

I'm not sure exactly what this is, but it is quite common and smells amazing at the moment. Like an orange blossom type of smell.

The heat evaporated the oils and they smell nice as the oil is in the air.